Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115944 total results. Showing results 67541 to 67560 «337433753376337733783379338033813382Next ›Last » Experience Is Not Enough: Self-Identified Training Needs of Police Working With Adolescents Police receive extensive training due to the complexity and challenges of their work. Surprisingly, most police officers receive minimal training on how to understand and interact with adolescents. The current study included data from 1,030 law enforcement officers from 24 police departments evaluating perceived readiness to interact and work with adolescents in the community. We examined overall training needs, and then tested how experience in law enforcement and position or rank impacted self-identified training needs. Rank was associated with police officer perceptions of adolescents and related training needs. Compared with patrol officers, school resource officers indicated that they believed they had the skills needed to effectively work with adolescents [P = 0.001, odds ration (OR) = 2.5]. Beat or area patrol officers were significantly less likely than school resource officers to report feeling equipped to work with adolescents who have experienced trauma compared with new recruits (P < 0.001, OR = 0.3) and other non-patrol police officers (P = 0.001, OR = 0.6). Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 27/7/2021 Research article Organizational Culture, Stress, and Coping Strategies in the Police: An Empirical Investigation This paper investigates the relationships between organizational culture, stress, and coping strategies in police organizations. In an online survey, 152 German police officers described their workgroups in terms of stressors (e.g. overtime demands, traumatic events), coping strategies (e.g. exercising, drinking alcohol), and shared values (e.g. masculinity, solidarity). Multiple regression models were tested to examine a) the effect of stress on police culture and b) the effect of stress and police culture on coping. Conservative-male culture is stronger in workgroups with high operational stress. Predictors of maladaptive coping are organizational stress and conservative-male culture. Diligence culture is negatively associated with maladaptive coping. Overall, the study indicates that police culture depends on the composition and stress level of a workgroup and influences the way officers cope with stress. The main limitation of the study is the unclear direction of causality. However, our findings have important implications for leadership and psychological intervention within the police. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 27/7/2021 Research article Do Perceptions Become Reality? Exploring Principals’ Perceptions, Schools’ SRO/police Presence, and Student Discipline Reporting Policies While recent scholarship generally emphasizes how public school principals’ perceptions influence various school safety practices, far less is understood about how principals’ perceptions of school crime risk and academic climate informs schools’ decisions on specific school safety outcomes, including a school’s SRO/police presence and policies on whether to report student disciplinary incidents to law enforcement agencies. Using data drawn from the 2017–18 School Survey on Crime and Safety and 2,500 public schools in the United States, this study examines these questions. The results make clear that the influence of principals’ perceptions vary across different school safety outcomes. Equally important is that the variation appears to be nonrandom. While the uneven salience of principals’ perceptions does not necessarily dilute their importance to school policies, it does underscore the need for a more granular accounting and understanding of how various important school-level safety outcomes arise. Journal of School Violence - Registration at source 27/7/2021 Research article Damning letter highlighting police anger delivered to Downing Street National Chair John Apter has written a forthright letter to Downing Street expressing how our membership feels towards the Government, demanding it overturns its zero percent pay award decision and calling for a fairer pay review system, not influenced by government. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 27/7/2021 News Stop and search powers boosted by new crime plan Limits imposed on police use of stop and search will be permanently reversed as part of the Prime Minister’s ‘Beating Crime Plan’, it has been announced. Police Professional 27/7/2021 News Manchester police chief rejects claim of institutional racism Officers are five times more likely to stop and search black people than white, race equality report finds The Guardian 27/7/2021 News PM criticised for staging ‘PR stunt’ to launch crime plan The Prime Minister and Home Secretary have been accused of staging a PR stunt after visiting Surrey Police headquarters today (July 27) to launch the Government’s new crime-fighting plan. Police Professional 27/7/2021 News Cleveland Police recruits its first wellbeing dogs Cleveland Police has become the latest force recruit ‘wellbeing dogs’ to help boost the mental health of its officers and staff. Police Professional 27/7/2021 News ‘Turn your phones off’ Police officers urged to ‘call in sick’ in pay freeze protest stunt Police officers have been urged by a former Scotland Yard head to have "call in sick" and adopt other slowing down strategies when responding to calls to protest the pay freeze the Government recently announced. Express 27/7/2021 News Pandemic policing: Two thirds of officers have experienced work-related mental health difficulties during the Covid crisis As the UK continues to emerge from lockdown, a new report from the Police Federation of England and Wales reveals that 69% of police officers have experienced work-related mental health difficulties during the pandemic; Policing Insight Editor Keith Potter looks at the report – the latest in a recent series of studies to highlight the pandemic’s devastating impact on emergency services wellbeing. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/7/2021 Analysis, Feature Greater Manchester Police branded ‘institutionally racist’ Greater Manchester Police has been described as institutionally racist by the chairwoman of a panel scrutinising the force's record. BBC 27/7/2021 News Kingston Police roll out ‘positive ticket’ program to reward community engagement CANADA: Kingston Police have initiated a “Positive Incentive Ticket Program” for local children exhibiting good behaviour and activism within their community. Global News (Canada) 27/7/2021 News Calls made at police board meeting for both budget freeze and additional officers CANADA: Some community delegations called for a police budget freeze while others defended the force and argued for additional officers at an Ottawa Police Service board meeting on Monday evening. Ottawa Citizen (Canada) 27/7/2021 News British Columbia launches mental health, substance use response team in Terrace CANADA: A new response team has been deployed in northwest British Columbia to provide rapid response for communities facing mental health and substance use challenges. Blue Line (Canada) 27/7/2021 News Ransomware resource claims to have prevented $900m in payments REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: In five years of operation, Europol’s No More Ransom portal has built up a repository of more than 100 ransomware decryption tools. Silicon Republic 27/7/2021 News Mixed reaction to plans for mental health crisis teams REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Government plans to pilot a special intervention team for mental health crises has generally been welcomed by agencies and groups working in the area. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 27/7/2021 News Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/7/2021 News Mapping Demands: How to Prepare Police Officers to Cope With Pandemic-Specific Stressors Frequent and varied training of police officers is crucial to optimally prepare them for the challenges they face in their police work and allow them to cope with these demands effectively. The Horizon 2020 project “SHOTPROS” aims to develop a training program in Virtual Reality (VR) to train appropriate decision-making and acting capabilities of police officers in high-stress situations. The current COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a prime example of such a high stress situation. Therefore, the aim of the present article is to re-analyse data from a longitudinal survey among 2567 police officers across Europe, to identify pandemic-related demands experienced by the participating officers during the first COVID-19 lockdown that can be integrated and trained in (VR) scenario-based training, to better prepare police officers for the current and potentially future pandemic outbreaks. Following the constraints-led approach to training, pandemic-related demands are categorized as task, environmental, and individual constraints to provide police trainers with a toolkit how to change and manipulate training scenarios according to the trainees’ needs. Offering high control over training procedures, VR might be an effective tool to incorporate pandemic-related stressors into current training practices. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 27/7/2021 Research article Policing Under Scrutiny: Leadership, Legitimacy and the Role of Evidence The 2021 Australia and New Zealand Society of Evidence Base Policing (ANZSEBP) Conference is taking place online on 17th August with the theme of "Policing Under Scrutiny: Leadership, Legitimacy and the Role of Evidence". ANZSEBP Vice President and Deputy Chief Executive: Insights and Deployment at New Zealand Police, Mark Evans invites delegates from around the world to attend. Policing Insight 27/7/2021 Advertisement, Feature Police Federation accuses Government of ‘contempt’ for officers The chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is to deliver a letter to Downing Street setting out officers’ anger over a pay freeze and objections to the Government’s Beating Crime Plan. Police Professional 27/7/2021 News «337433753376337733783379338033813382Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
